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Talking Shopcast with Long Island Electrical Systems (L.I.E.S)
Long Island Electrical Systems (L.I.E.S.) is exemplary of the private press label renaissance of recent years. Its releases largely draw upon the output of gifted friends and quintessences, are...
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Unknown artist, L.I.E.S 010.5
[Long Island Electrical Systems] When it comes to 4/4 music, there are few labels delivering such consistently exciting tunes as Long Island Electrical Systems is right now. As I noted with...
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Jahiliyya Fields, Unicursal Hexagram
[Long Island Electrical Systems] Eager to have his records placed in bins other than the “house” ones at record stores, Ron Morelli has steadily increased the weirdness of each subsequent L.I.E.S....
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Simoncino, Dreams EP
[Long Island Electrical Systems] Simone Vescovo has had an incredibly productive few years. The Italian DJ and producer has quietly been turning out vintage-sounding analog house under the Simoncino...
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Torn Hawk, Tarifa
[Long Island Electrical Systems] Brooklyn’s Luke Wyatt is best known for his hallucinatory, warped-VHS videos for the likes of Ital and Peoples Potential Unlimited, but Tarifa, his debut 12″ as Torn...
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Bad News, Real Bad News
[Long Island Electrical Systems] 2012 is another banner year for L.I.E.S. Despite the label’s aggressive release schedule and forays into new stylistic territory this year, each release still speaks...
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Two Dogs In A House, Eliminator
Photo by Peter Nidzgorski [Long Island Electrical Systems] Decidedly unburdened by structural limitations of genres, the Long Island Electrical Systems (L.I.E.S.) label from NYC steadily continues its...
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LWE’s Top 5 Labels of 2012
As always, selecting just five of the year’s outstanding record labels is a task best left up to the vote. LWE’s staff nominated everything from Frankfurt house outpost Live At Robert Johnson to the...
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Daywalker + CF, You Only Live Once
[Long Island Electrical Systems] Members of the L.I.E.S. extended family seem to be pairing off lately. Bookworms and Steve Summers have just minted the Confused House label with a stellar...
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Gunnar Haslam, Mimesiak
[Long Island Electrical Systems] When it comes to L.I.E.S., my most frequent thought is: where did it come from? Mid-way through 2011, Ron Morelli’s Brooklyn-bred label was just starting to make real...
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